From left) Yuetsu Komada, Mitsuhisa Sato and Tamiya Onodera. © 2026 RIKEN A pioneering project led by RIKEN is underway to ...
The most powerful supercomputers have already revolutionized science and technology, but will advance unimaginably in the near future with new breakthroughs. Are you ahead, or behind on retirement?
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What Is a Supercomputer?

At a high level, a supercomputer is exactly what it sounds like—namely, a computer so much more powerful than a desktop as to deserve the superlative. What makes supercomputers interesting isn't just ...
VDURA boss: Your x86 clusters are obsolete, metadata is eating 20% of I/O, and every idle GPU second burns cash The supercomputing landscape is fracturing. What once was a relatively unified world of ...
The UF Data Center seemed unexceptional, ordinary in every sense of the word — at least from the outside. Clad in red brick, it was wedged into the interior of a near-empty parking lot where Erik ...
Supercomputers are unsung heroes—unless you're a nerd like we are, in which case they're probably at least a little bit sung. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...
Sept. 5, 2025 — The JUPITER exascale-class supercomputer was unveiled to the public today at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany in front of guests from politics, science, and industry. German ...
The new supercomputer shows the increasing desire of government labs to adopt more technologies from commercial artificial intelligence systems. By Don Clark Reporting from San Francisco Scientific ...
It’s funny how things in reality can be so far removed from what we imagined. A classic example of this is how I imagined there to be a horde of scientists at Nvidia HQ hunched over their PCs and all ...
A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giants like Nvidia to speed up. A.I. has added urgency to ...
Most AI training activity is now focused around the huge resources available to the tech giants, who build virtual supercomputers in their clouds. But in earlier days, research was largely carried out ...